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About

This site is an effort to share some of the base knowledge I have gathered through all this years working with Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Python or Zope, among others. So, take a look around and I hope you will find the contents useful.

The Flower Power Sprint

Exactly one month ago I had a long traveling day with r0sk. We left Lugo in
the middle of the night and we got in a plane in A Coruña while it was still
dark outside.

After a one-hour-and-something flight we arrived in Barcelona, where we got in
another plane, this time the destination was Athens, Greece. We were on our way
to one of our regular International Pizzasprints, when all the people
working on the same project meet to work hand by hand for a few days (and then
have lots of fun, of course).

We did stay in Athens for a short time, but there was time enough to meet our
friends George, Javier and Pantelis for some drinks and dinner, everything
organized by our Athenian host, Panos. We had a really good time there.

On the next day we took the boat at the pireus port, destination Naxos, the
biggest island in the Cyclades (yeah! once more!).

It took us around 5 hours to get to Naxos. We had plenty of time to talk with
Panos and Rika and update ourselves a bit on how everybody has been doing for
the last couple of years (specially with Rika, as I hadn't met her since 2013).

Just before arriving, the boat did a short stop in the island of Paros, it was
time to go to the back of the boat and enjoy this view I love every time I go
there.

In Naxos, Sascha was waiting for us at the port. It was midday and we were
hungry, so we had the first lunch in naxos (good quality food, as always!).

We spent 10 days in the island, with 3 work days, 1 resting day (cycling!!), 3
more work days and 2 social days (that is, having fun all the team together).
The last day in the island was mostly for packing up and taking the boat back
to Athens.

For this sprint, Sascha found a very nice small house in a village in the
mountains, Damarionas. Really nice and comfortable house, with everything we
needed and awesome views.

During this sprint we met the new team member for the first time, Grigori, and
we had a very nice coding sprint (well, I had a tough time due to a problem
in our production server, which took me off the sprint workflow for a while).
We worked in a variety of places, in the house rented for the sprint as well as
in some cafés

Sascha and me went cycling. As he liked to call it, my personal "cycling
training camp". We had some nice rides and lots of fun (I even did beat
the 100km barrier). He lend me his Kona Jake, which fit me perfectly
well (same size and geometry as mine).

In the social days we did a social ride, on the dirt roads by the beaches,
in hybrid bikes provided by Naxos Bikes. We also went to a
climbing/bouldering gym and we did our traditional walk/hike to the temple
of Dimitras.

We had lots of good moments during the sprint (it wasn't only working and
cycling ;-P), we ate lots of good food... Just another great sprint!

You should check both betabug's and r0sk's posts about it (r0sk has looots
of good pics also!)